Zabbix best practices
In this section, I would like to share with you some best practices that you can follow when working with Zabbix:
- In general, it's best to work with templates as much as possible.
- Remember that you can make use of macros and define them on template and on host level. So when you create an item in your template, make use of macros as much as possible. This way when you have an item in your template that doesn't work for one of your servers, you don't have to create a second item. Instead, you could just alter the macro on host level.
- Zabbix provides a set of standard templates that are too aggressive in my opinion. I suggest that you create your own templates or strip the original ones and only keep what you really need to monitor. Only check items every x number of minutes, instead of seconds, and keep the time interval for history as short as possible. Mostly, there is no need to keep all data for months and for reference most of the time, trends will...
